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Organic-inorganic halide perovskites are intrinsically unstable when exposed to moisture and/or light. Additionally, the presence of lead in many perovskites raises toxicity concerns. Herein is reported a thin film of BaZrS3, a lead-free…
Metal halide perovskite-based materials have emerged over the past few decades as remarkable solution-processable opto-electronic materials with many intriguing properties and potential applications. These emerging materials have recently…
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Stereochemically active lone-pair (SCALP) cations are attractive units for realizing optical anisotropy. Antimony (III) chloride perovskites with SCALP have remained largely unknown till date. We synthesized vacancy ordered Cs3Sb2Cl9…
We compare three representative high performance PV materials: halide perovskite MAPbI3, CdTe, and GaAs, in terms of photoluminescence (PL) efficiency, PL lineshape, carrier diffusion, and surface recombination, over multiple orders of…
2D hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors (HOIS) are low-cost, self-assembled semiconductors that have proven to be vital for novel optoelectronic devices due to their inherent stable excitons even at room temperature. 2D HOIS are…
Hybrid halide perovskite semiconductors exhibit complex, dynamical disorder while also harboring properties ideal for optoelectronic applications that include photovoltaics. However, these materials are structurally and compositionally…
Inorganic metal-halide cubic perovskite semiconductors have become more popular in industrial applications of photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. Among various perovskites, lead-free materials are currently most explored due to their…
Since the very early stages of research on sustainable technologies, green energy conversion has always been a prime focus. With the discoveries of countless functional materials in recent years, significant progress has been made to meet…
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